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DEA, Boulder law enforcement announce cocaine ring indictments

Grand jury indicts 20 on 300 charges; eleven search warrants served

By Pierrette J. Shields Longmont Times-Call

Posted:
01/22/2013 01:14:39 PM MST

Updated:
01/23/2013 12:24:43 PM MST

LONGMONT -- Local and federal law enforcement agents announced on Tuesday that a cocaine and weapons ring operating in Boulder, Weld, and Denver counties was broken up as 210 officers hit the streets looking for 20 suspects indicted by a grand jury.

The suspects were sought on more than 300 combined drugs, weapons and conspiracy charges, according to reports.

The 17-month investigation led to seizures of a "significant amount of cocaine," according to the Boulder County Drug Task Force announcement.

"This investigation has cut off a pipeline from Mexico to Boulder that brought cocaine and weapons to our streets," said DEA Special Agent Barbra Roach in a prepared statement. "Boulder and the surrounding communities are safer today due to the cooperative efforts of federal, state and local agencies."

A total of 210 law enforcement officers from the Boulder County Drug Task Force, the DEA's and IRS's Denver field divisions, local police and sheriff's officers, and the North Metro Task Force served eleven search warrants on Tuesday as part of the investigation. Five warrants were served in Boulder, two in unincorporated Weld County, and one each in Louisville, Longmont, unincorporated Adams County, and Denver.

A total of 210 law enforcement officers from the Boulder County Drug Task Force, the DEA and IRS's Denver field divisions, local police and sheriff's officers, and the North Metro Task Force served search warrants Tuesday as part of the investigation. Five warrants were served in Boulder, two in unincorporated Weld County, and one each in Louisville, Longmont, unincorporated Adams County and Denver.

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Longmont Police Cmdr. Jeff Satur said the city's gang crime and suppression unit served a search warrant in the case at 6 a.m. Tuesday and secured the residence for task force members to search. They cleared the home within a few hours.

Fourteen of the 20 indicted were arrested, according to the sheriff's office:

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